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LES BELLES-SOEURS
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Not-To-Be-Missed Releases
A Vintage Assessments Recommended Best Buy
Alta-Yarí Gran Torrontés 2021
Dry, Gently Spicy, Complex *** (93 points)
Our #1 Vintages White Wine Buy #31667 - $27.95
It's not everyday that you see Argentine Torrontes selling for $27.95. One taste and I knew why. Of the 112 Vintages Torrontes releases Ihave reviewed over the past 23 years, it's the best yet. Bright pale straw colour, this has an attractive, slightly spicy, fairly complex, ripe, yellow-grapefruit nose with lots of minerality along with some citrusy notes. Dry, medium bodied, nicely structured and quite mouthfilling, the intense, ripe, Asian pear flavours are followed up by a lingering, elegantly spicy, faintly grassy, bright, citrusy finish. A sensation with seafood and Thai, sushi and Asian-inspired cuisine.
A winner at 2946 Bloor Street West & Royal York
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LAST CHANCE!
VINTAGES BEST BUYS
Outstanding St. David's Bench Pinot Noir
Queenston Mile Pinot Noir 2017
A Vintage Assessments Recommended Best Buy
Vintages Flagship #10138 - $40.00
Ripe, Complex, Well Structured ***+ (94 points)
Faintly ambering deep red colour, the lovely nose is intense, complex and faintly smoky with ripe Damson plum, black cherry fruit and some raspberry-tinged, gently cedary notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, well structured, harmonious, ripe plummy, black cherry, raspberry-cassis fruit flavours with a lingering, bright, complex, gently cedary finish. Winemaker Rob Power's delicious St. David’s Bench Pinot Noir is definitely worth buying and drinking now. Aged for 16 months in French oak with full malolactic, it has 12.7% alcohol, 3 g/L residual sugar and 6.3 g/L total acidity. Its great mouthfeel is a result of minimal filtration.
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